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2002-2004 : BUILDING A NEW NETWORKING
July 2002
A. A NEW NETWORKING : WHY and HOW ?
WHY ?
- ALADIN is an old (10 years) and
mature project
- It will benefit from
less and less external financial support along the next year : research stays
for European partners in Toulouse founded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(MAE) are likely to be cancelled for 2001, strongly reduced if not cancelled
for 2002, and disappear afterwards. The present LACE organisation for
operations and research, with a training and research centre in Prague, ends
with 2002. The new scientific cooperation model for RC LACE will rely on
research group stays at different Member States with strong cooperation,
coordination around three main scientific subjects : data assimilation,
dynamics and physics. Météo-France fundings are assumed to
support only maintenance, and won't increase so much. The ALATNET project will
stop at the end of February 2004, and anyway can support only short
coordination stays for a few partners.
AS A CONSEQUENCE WE HAVE TO INVENT A NEW RESEARCH NETWORKING !
HOW ?
- increasing responsibilities
for each partner
- a higher part of
local research (with a concerted distribution of work taking into
account the respective topics of interest, scientific experience and computing facilities)
- setup of small
(and united) specialized working groups (each with its own
coordinator, and meeting regularly in mini-workshops)
- improved communication
: intensive e-mail exchanges, writing and reading contributions to
Newsletters, reports from working groups, ...
- efficient distance tutorial
- strong coordination
(both transversal and thematic)
CONSEQUENCES :
- on training
: Basic training (performed locally) and PhD work are not endangered. But
alternative solutions are to be designed for advanced training, all the more
since the ALATNET seminar organized in May 2002 is the last one. The few
research stays in Toulouse should be preserved for advanced training, but this
probably won't be enough.
- on maintenance
: The corresponding work will increase, and we must think about deported
maintenance actions (the first examples - in Budapest and Ljubljana - were successful).
B. COORDINATORS
TRANSVERSAL COORDINATION
- CSSI : Coordinators for Scientific
and Strategic Issues
- 6 coordinators designed by the
Assembly of Partners :
Luc Gérard (Belgium)
Radmila Brozkova (Czech Rep.)
Dominique Giard (France)
Andras Horanyi (Hungary)
Abdallah Mokssit (Morocco)
Doina Banciu (Romania)
- Duties :
1. define priorities in the scientific plan
2. precise cooperation with HIRLAM, UKMO and COSMO
3. select coordinators, organise more efficient networking
4. follow the progress of the AROME project
5. report to the Assembly
THEMATIC COORDINATION
The coordinators should first check the list of people inside
their subject and set up a mailing list for those persons. Each coordinator
should write a "kick-off" letter to the members of his team
explaining the state of art on the given field and near / longer term
objectives and plans. This first e-mail should stimulate the further effective
information exchanges.
C. FIRST REALISATION (following the working plan for 2002)
TRAINING
Basic training at home (pursuing the
present effort)
ALATNET training course "on
Numerical Methods and NWP Applications"
Kranjska-Gora, Slovenia, 27 May - 1 June
"LACE" training course
"on Maintenance / Code Architecture"
Budapest, Hungary, 25-29 November
PhD thesis : continuing
MAINTENANCE
cycles 25T1 in May, 25T2 in September
mainly distributed between Toulouse,
Budapest and Prague
some well-identified problems may be
solved locally anywhere else : just ask !
New : maintenance of scripts !
coordination meetings along the
phasing exercises, as usually, and during the Budapest seminar
TEAMS AND MEETINGS
Operations
every ALADIN team is concerned,
work is to be done mainly locally
coordination meeting :
Medulin (Cr), 3-6 June 2002 (during the ALADIN workshop)
coordinator still to be designed
Applications
every ALADIN team is concerned,
work is to be done mainly locally
coordination meetings :
Medulin (Cr), 3-6 June 2002 (during the ALADIN workshop)
Vienna (Au), December 2002 (during the SRNWP workshop)
coordinator still to be designed
Verification
every ALADIN team is concerned,
work is to be done mainly locally
coordination meetings :
Budapest (Hu), 11 March 2002 (for objective verification)
Medulin (Cr), 3-6 June 2002 (during the ALADIN workshop)
coordinator still to be designed
Coupling
persons : JM Audoin
(Fr), C Moussy (Be), G Radnoti (Hu), R Radu (Ro), P Termonia (Be) + K
Stadlabacher (Au) for validation
coordination meetings :
Kranjska-Gora (Si), 27-31 May 2002 (during the ALATNET seminar)
Medulin (Cr), 3-6 June 2002 (during the ALADIN workshop)
Ljubljana (Si), November 2002
Dynamics
persons : P
Bénard (Fr), R Brozkova (Cz), M Janousek (Cz), J Masek (Sk), A Nmiri
(Tu), G Skok (Si), C Smith (Uk), P Smolikova (Cz), F Vana (Cz), J Vivoda (Sk),
K Yessad (Fr) + I Gospodinov (Bu) for the interface with physics + K
Stadlbacher (Au) and A Trojakova (Cz) for validation
coordination meetings :
Toulouse (Fr), 15 March 2002 (during phasing)
Medulin (Cr), 3-6 June 2002 (during the ALADIN workshop)
Toulouse (Fr), September 2002 (during phasing)
Vienna (Au), December 2002 (during the SRNWP workshop) ?
Predictability
persons : C Fischer
(Fr), A Horanyi (Hu), S Kertesz (Hu), J Nicolau (Fr), J
Néméghaire (Be)
coordination meeting :
Madrid (Sp), 3-4 October 2002 (during the SRNWP workshop) ?
Physics : A lot of work and a very strong cooperation are required
here ! ==> divided in subtopics
Physics / Precipitations
(Convection, Microphysics, ...)
persons : D Banciu
(Ro), E Bazile (Fr), M Bellus (Sk), K Bergaoui (Tu), JF Geleyn (Fr), L
Gérard (Be), S Greilberger (Au), T Haiden (Au), A Kann (Au), L Kullman
(Hu), T Kovacic (Cr), JM Piriou (Fr), S Sbii (Mo)
coordination meetings :
Toulouse (Fr), 17, 23, 24 May 2002
Kranjska-Gora (Si), 27-31 May 2002 (during the ALATNET seminar)
Medulin (Cr), 3-6 June 2002 (during the ALADIN workshop)
Physics / Turbulent processes,
Boundary layer
persons : M Gera (Sk),
H Seidl (Au), A Simon (Sk), Martina Tudor (Cr) + Toulouse team
coordination meetings :
Medulin (Cr), 3-6 June 2002 (during the ALADIN workshop)
Toulouse (Fr), 24-27 June 2002
Physics / Radiation
persons : Y Bouteloup
(Fr), JF Geleyn (Fr), H Toth (Hu)
coordination meeting :
none scheduled
Physics / Surface
persons : E Bazile
(Fr), F Bouyssel (Fr), D Giard (Fr), O Latinne (Be) + visits ?
coordination meeting :
Toulouse (Fr), September 2002
Physics / Orography
persons : F Bouyssel
(Fr), B Cathry (Be), JF Geleyn (Fr), D Giard (Fr), T Haiden (Au), K
Stadlbacher (Au), Y Wang (Au) + D Dvrar (Cr) ?
coordination meeting :
Toulouse (Fr), 18-22 March 2002
Physics / Simplified Physics
persons : F Bouyssel
(Fr), C Loo (Fr), C Soci (Ro)
coordination meeting :
Toulouse (Fr), beginning of 2003
Physics / Validation
Physics / Interface to dynamics
persons : I
Gospodinov (Bu), M. Jerczynski (Pl) + authors of modifications
coordination meeting :
none scheduled
Data Assimilation (upperair) : Methods
persons : R Ajjaji
(Mo), S Alexandru (Ro), M Belo Pereira (Pt), L Berre (Fr), G Boloni (Hu), P
Caille (Fr), A Deckmyn (Be), C Fischer (Fr), V Guidard (Fr), A Horanyi (Hu), S
Kertesz (Hu), W Sadiki (Mo), C Soci (Ro), S Stefanescu (Ro)
coordination meetings :
Medulin (Cr), 3-6 June 2002 (during the ALADIN workshop)
Data Assimilation (upperair) : Observations
persons : M Benko
(Sk), G Boloni (Hu), P Caille (Fr), C Fischer (Fr), L Gaytandjieva (Bu), V
Guidard (Fr), M Jurasek (Sk), S Kertesz (Hu), R Randriamampianina (Hu), Z
Sahlaoui (Mo), M Szczech (Pl), R Zaaboul (Mo)
coordination meetings :
Medulin (Cr), 3-6 June 2002 (during the ALADIN workshop)
next Assembly of Partners (rules for a safe exchange of observations)
Data Assimilation : Surface (and Diag-Pack)
persons : GP Balsamo
(It), F Bouyssel (Fr), N Bouzouita (Tu), A Dziedzic (Pl), S Ivatek-Sahdan
(Cr), O Latinne (Be), A Mika (Hu), F Taillefer (Fr), JL Ricard (Fr), Y Wang (Au)
coordination meeting :
Toulouse (Fr), September 2002
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